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Writing Chinese Laws - The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus (Hardcover)
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Writing Chinese Laws - The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Law
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The legal institutions of the short-lived Qin dynasty (221-207 BCE)
have been vilified by history as harsh and draconian. Yet
ironically, many Qin institutional features, such as written
statutory law, were readily adopted by subsequent dynasties as the
primary means for maintaining administrative and social control.
This book utilizes both traditional texts and archeologically
excavated materials to explore how these influential Qin legal
institutions developed. First, it investigates the socio-political
conditions which led to the production of law in written form. It
then goes on to consider how the intended function of written law
influenced the linguistic composition of legal statutes, as well as
their physical construction. Using a function and form approach, it
specifically analyses the Shuihudi legal corpus. However, unlike
many previous studies of Chinese legal manuscripts, which have
focused on codicological issues of transcription and translation,
this book considers the linguistic aspects of these manuscripts and
thus their importance for understanding the development of early
Chinese legal thought. Writing Chinese Laws will be useful to
students and scholars of Chinese Studies, as well as Asian law and
history more generally.
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